Good question. I believe it would also fall under cogs. Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.
-----Original Message----- From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:07 PM To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] what should ARPU mean? What about the WISP as a whole. Example: What about bandwidth? On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Jerry Richardson <jrichard...@aircloud.com> wrote: > The cost of tangable items invoiced. For example if you sell the customer the > cpe, the cost of that is the radio, dish, connectors, cable, mount, poe > injector, cable ties, lags, surge protector, etc. > > Labor does not fall under cogs > > Sent from my Windows Mobile(R) phone. > > -----Original Message----- > From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:47 AM > To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] what should ARPU mean? > > I hate to hijack this thread but this brings to mind another question: > With respect to WISP's, what is the definition of CGS (Cost of Goods > Sold)? > -RickG > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Shiraz Moosajee <shi...@jabbroadband.com> > wrote: >> Matt, >> You would generally count just the one "unique" customer. >> >> That said, every ARPU calculation I have seen seems to be slightly >> different which in itself reflects the different definitions of >> customers and revenue. One example is treatment of MDU (Multiple >> Dwelling Unit) Apartments which is sometimes dealt with as a single >> customer (the apartment owner / HOA) and sometimes at the more granular >> tenant level. >> >> It's probably more important to pick a methodology that's justifiable - >> a good test would be if you send your customer 1 or many invoices / get >> 1 payment? - and apply it consistently. >> >> Shiraz >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Matt Liotta >> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:15 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] what should ARPU mean? >> >> What if one customer signs two different contracts? at two different >> locations? >> >> Is there ever a point where a single customer should for the purposes >> of ARPU be considered at a less granular level? >> >> -Matt >> >> On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Travis Johnson wrote: >> >>> My assumption has always been adding up all your gross revenues from >>> the >>> customers and dividing by the number of customers. I had never heard >>> of >>> anything different. What are you hearing? >>> >>> Travis >>> Microserv >>> >>> Matt Liotta wrote: >>>> We (the WISP industry) like to talk about ARPU a lot, but different >>>> organizations define ARPU differently. So, my question is what do you >>>> think the definition of ARPU should be? >>>> >>>> -Matt >>>> >>>> >>>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> -------- >>>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> -------- >>>> >>>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>>> >>>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>>> >>>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> -------- >>> WISPA Wants You! 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